<p>Dear liberal arts majors: what jobs do you want to get after graduating if you are not go to medical school, law school or grad school? What is the pay?</p>
<p>I’m under the impression that most liberal arts majors get jobs that has starting pay of ~30k. </p>
<p>What kind of higher paying jobs can BA graduates get and how?</p>
<p>Liberal arts degree = have fun flipping burgers</p>
<p>pretty much true:</p>
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<p>I’m a History major and I’m planning to go to law school.</p>
<p>Most liberal arts majors I know either become teachers or lawyers. Or at least they say they do. To be honest, out of all the “pre-laws” I’ve met, only a few have actually gone to law school.</p>
<p>Friend 1 (Psychology c/o 08): works for a non-profit company that deals with autistic kid
Friend 2 (Psychology c/o 08): works for an Asian fashion design company
Friend 3 (English c/o 08): works as a secretary for a dentist’s office
Friend 4 (Political Science c/o 09): Unemployed
Friend 5 (Political Science c/o 09): Unemployed
Friend 6 (History c/o 09): attending Seminary
Friend 7 (Political Science c/o 09): attending grad school for Masters in Public Health
Friend 8 (Psychology): Volunteering/working part time at a pharmacy - wants to apply to Pharmacy School</p>
<p>2 other friends (History, Political Science): attending Law school</p>
<p>3 other friends (History, History, French): attending grad school for Master’s in Education</p>
<p>^ thanks.</p>
<p>do you know how much the Asian fashion design company pays and how hard it is to get the job? Could you introduce the person to me via PM so I can ask the question to him?</p>
<p>What is this “job” thing you speak of?</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad. There are lots of engineers and other socamp majors that don’t have jobs either. And they actually had to suffer during college rather than party all day.</p>
<p>If you position yourself correctly and join a professional organization you’re interested in, (shameless plug here for Bruin Consulting [Bruin</a> Consulting](<a href=“http://www.bruinco.com%5DBruin”>http://www.bruinco.com)) you can definitely pick up jobs in consulting or similar areas where you can tout your analytical & problem solving abilities.</p>
<p>@notaznguy
That’s so true. The kids who claim to be “pre-law” and that don’t go through with it are almost as bad as those that go “pre-med”. What a world we live in…</p>
<p>If you happen to know a foreign language (not necessarily fluently), right after college, there’s plenty of jobs overseas teaching English. My son’s friend, who just graduated from Cal with a BA in Political Science, is in Madrid this year teaching English to grammar school children, and he claims it is not only great experience, but a relatively open market.</p>
<p>Although it’s probably true that I and most of my friends (and my parents, for that matter) who were English or Poli Sci majors either ended up teaching or becoming lawyers. Others became paralegals, office clerks, publication editors, research assistants (even for the science/medical field – they often need people who can read, write and research!) and writers, junior buyers in retail, or took advanced degrees for career opportunities. There’s also job opportunities right on campus in your department, although at this moment, due to the economy, not so much.</p>
<p>I actually would rather keep my friend confidential since it’d be weird to introduce him to someone I don’t even know. Especially some user on a forum, no offense.</p>
<p>But I can tell you that he mainly got his job through connections. He was born in Hong Kong so he was already proficient in Mandarin and Cantonese. He also was one of those types of people who were just really good at designing clothes and stuff you know. It’s not like he learned any of that stuff at UCLA. I think he just studied Psych just for the hell of it and wanted to just get the Bachelor’s degree. His aunt, who works in Hong Kong, helped give him some recommendations to several people and he slowly worked. He initially worked for one company as an unpaid intern just for experience, then quit after a few months and landed a paying position elsewhere, and so on.</p>
<p>My recommendation, honestly, if you are a liberal arts major, do get a graduate degree. It’s almost necessary because a B.A./B.S. is nearly useless itself nowadays.</p>
<p>If you get a Masters in liberal arts isn’t that pretty useless too though?</p>
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<p>Yeah but they only pay you like 20k plus lodging don’t they?</p>
<p>Excuse me, I meant get a graduate degree in a professional field. A Masters degree in a liberal arts is just as useless as a B.A. in one (no offense).</p>
<p>Practical graduate degrees include: Juris Doctor, Masters in Public Administration/Public Policy, Masters in Urban Planning, Masters in Social Work, etc.</p>
<p>what kind of jobs do you get with asters in public adm, social work?</p>
<p>not true about flipping burgers… of my friends who are liberal arts majors –</p>
<ul>
<li>teaching English abroad </li>
<li>getting MA or becoming credentialed to teach</li>
<li>office admin & paralegal/legal assistant positions </li>
<li>consulting </li>
<li>law school, medical school, PhD programs </li>
<li>working on cruise ships </li>
</ul>
<p>i’ve had the following opportunities (or at least interviews – including 2nd/3rd round) as a history grad with a BA (did not go to graduate school):</p>
<ul>
<li>political consulting (oppositional research, helping candidates organize campaigns) </li>
<li>working on an actual political campaign leading up to nov2nd </li>
<li>teaching English abroad </li>
<li>project coordination/management, sales and/or events planning at fortune 500 companies </li>
<li>non-profit work </li>
<li>legal assistant/paralegal work </li>
<li>financial services (think New York Life) </li>
<li>work at a federal agency </li>
</ul>
<p>what really helped my resume was my GPA and well, doing an [unpaid] internship (i just had one). i worked in college as well (nothing fancy - just odd jobs) and still graduated with high grades. i’ve also made an effort to network at events and stuff and i’ve managed to get quite a few leads that way. </p>
<p>i know there’s a post-humanities lag after graduation but if you are active in the community and manage to get an internship or two under your belt while you’re in school, it helps out so much. volunteering in the community is great too - i’m really involved in two organizations and have managed to talk about those experiences in my interviews. </p>
<p>admittedly, it’s really hard once you leave school to get going and it can be discouraging since you’re competing against people with those coveted business degrees. as long as you’re not pursuing something that has really specific, technical skills, you should be fine (though there is a struggle). another thing is - you should take some time to reflect on what you want in your career and work backwards to get to that point. initially, i wanted to do academia and now i’m not interested anymore.</p>
<p>Teaching English abroad is about 20k plus lodging. What kind of jobs that libreal arts majors can get are relatively high paying?</p>